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Jenny Holzer

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“I'd like to say from the beginning that the 12 years I've been coming here, I've met unfailing courtesy and cooperation, courtesy from your people and cooperation from the Ministry of Information.”

Source : Iraqi TV Interview, www.cnn.com. March 30, 2003.
“My father was an engineer, .. But I found out that the film critics for the Stanford Daily got free passes for all the films. So I became first an assistant critic and then the main film critic. Those free passes changed my life.”
“The man who is meek is not even sensitive about himself. He is not always watching himself and his own interests. He is not always on the defensiveâ€¦ To be truly meek means we no longer protect ourselves, because we see there is nothing worth defendingâ€¦ The man who is truly meek never pities himself, he is never sorry for himself. He never talks to himself and says, â€œYou are having a hard time, how unkind these people are not to understand you.”
“Think about last time you were broke ... now how well did it go with spending your way out of it? Did that work?”
“Every world has dogs or their equivalent, creatures that thrive on companionship, creatures that are of a high order of intelligence although not the highest and that therefore is simple enough in their wants and needs to remain innocent. The combination of their innocence and their intelligence allows them to serve as a bridge bewtween what is transient and what is eternal, between the finate and the infinate.”
“I learned to write from authors. I didn't know any, but I read their books.”
“It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.”
“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.”

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